Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
I. On a poet's lips I slept
Barry Tuckwell, Denis Blyth, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer, William Waterhouse, London Symphony Orchestra
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Sir Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Alexander Murray, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Sir Peter Pears, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Alexander Murray, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Denis Blyth
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer